I'd say there is considerable doubt where he wants to go, or at least where he will want to go next.
His objective was clear until June/July 2019 - to be PM. Now that he is, I don't think there's much certainty about what he will do next. He has always basically told his audience what he thinks they want to hear. So what he said depended on where he thought his interests lay and what that audience wanted. His survival prospects are almost certainly governing his choices now, his most obvious aim is hanging on like grim death. If he had the country's and democracy's interests at heart, he'd go.
Partygate isn't offensive, it's just wrong. It makes the whole of number 10 look like the Bullingdon club, putting up two fingers to the rest of us, including the Queen. That last bit alone should make it a resignation issue for Johnson.
>>His desire to avoid independent scrutiny of decisions involving the prime minister (him) is a fundamental democratic weakness given his overwhelming self-belief, and makes him unfit for PM.
There I can only agree. And I wonder if it goes beyond self-belief, and he thinks he is the only person who can do the job - the Churchill delusion.
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